The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-10-28
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

GEAAAA4Ao AMI CASUALTIES
THE fast train west on the Pennsylvania
road, an the 18th, at Stee's crossing, near
Ronks' station. Pa, struck a carriage
containing Mrs. Jacob Steltzfus and Mrs.
Barbara SteItzfus. middle aged ladies.
Both Were instantly killed, as was also
the horse.
FIRE on the night of the 18th, at SYRIA
cuse, n. Y, destroyed Barney s. Lamb
/ ley's large dry goods store and Everson &
Co.'s hardware store. The total loss is
/ between $4,000 and 800, 900; insurance,
about $3.50, 900.
| A NATURAL gas explosion in Pittsburgh,
Pa, on the 10Th, caused serious loss of life
and property.
THE Russian schooner Johannes was
/ towed into the port of Copenhagen, Dem
mark, on the 18th. A carpenter had muir
1 dered the captain and five of the crew,
and thrown their bodies overheard.
On the night of the 10Th the most disas-
trous coufagration that ever visited Mari
nette, WIS.,, took place. Two entire blocks
| in the heart of the city, containing
/ twenty-five stores, besides large num-
Der Of dwellings, were burned. The total
loss is 500, 600.
On the 18th Milton Roberts and Thomas
Crane were instantly killed by the ex-
plosion of the boiler of a steam thresher
near Pastor, York County, Neb.
THE steamer Upupa cOllided with and
sunk the German bark Planteur of Beachy
Head, England, on the 18th. Eleven per-
sons were drowned and the captain Of the
bark has since died. Only two Of the crew
of the bark survived.
| OK the 18th Thomas H. Davis, assistant
! freight agent of the New York Central
railroad in New York. who absconded,
leaving a deficiency of $4,000 in his ac-
counts, was caught in Canada and taken
back. He pleaded guilty, and was held
for trial.
On the 18th "a telegram was received at
Washington from Prof. Wiley, OF the
Agricultural Department, now in
Louisiana, stating that the cyclone on
that day entirely wrecked the machinery
erected for the purpose of trying the ex-
pertinent Of making sugar by the difusive
process.
The fast express on the Chesapeake &
Ohio railroad, six coaches, going west,
met with an accident on the goth, twelve
miles below Charleston, W. Va, in which
| twenty-six passengers were more or less
injured. None were killed outright.
MELBOURNE advices say the steamer
/ Cheviot has been wrecked al Port Phillip.
The Cheviot was q colonial passenger
Of iron and belonged to Melbourne. Many
of the passengers and crew were drowned.
The survivors have reached Melbourne.
on the night OF the 195h petroleum,
which had been used for fuel, caught fire
in the Fulton Iron Works at San Fran
cisco, and destroyed the machine-shops
with much machinery and castings for
six steam schooners, which have been
completed. Loss, $500, 900. The California
Car Works, adjoining, were also burned.
Their loss viii be between $4,000 and
S5O,O 900.
MCCULLoUGH, accused OF the horrible
murder on the high seas, was released on
5000 bail at Galveston, Tex, on the 21st.
ANDREW FLEMING, a negro, was hanged
at Tallulah, La, on the Dist, for the MUIR
der of Demp Benyou. On the scafold he
said he was willing to die.
BY falling off a scafFold at the barbed
wire mills at Allentown, Pa, on the 21st,
Samuel Mebus was instantly killed and
Titus Sterner fatally injured.
FRANK CREDEFORD, also known as
Crawford, whose name has been con-
nected with the latest clew in the Railway
IN. J.) murder mystery as the tramp
Weaver, and with whom the dead girl was
said to have been married, was arrested
in Philadelphia on the night of the 21st.
THE boiler Of n portable saw-mill at
West Brownsville, Pa, exploded on the
21st, with terrific force. Two brothers,
John and VIM. Kelley, were instantly
killed, and n man named McCann is miss
ing. The mill is a total wreck.
DYNAMITE which was being dried at a
fire, exploded at Leitcher, n s., on the
2lst, killing man named Mckenzie and
badly injuring a man named Mccormick.
The men were laborers on the Cape Breton
railway.